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Handshake between the secretary general of the CFDT Laurent Berger (L) and Prime Minister Édouard Philippe before a meeting in Matignon, on November 25, 2019, to discuss the pension reform. ERIC FEFERBERG / POOL / AFP

37th day of strike in France. Édouard Philippe meets the social partners this Friday, January 10 in Matignon to discuss the organization of a conference on the financing of the pension reform, as requested by the CFDT, the 1st union in the country. Pending a possible end to the crisis, pressure is mounting on the Prime Minister.

Under pressure, Édouard Philippe ? Not at all, according to a majority member. Invited Wednesday evening to Matignon with other walking colleagues, she found the Prime Minister " focused, open to discussion, but well aware that it is complicated ".

Complicated, it is little to say. Matignon is taken in a vice. With on one side the reformist unions, opposed to the pivotal age , and on the other, a part of the deputies En Marche who ask him to let go of the 64 years, but also figures of the majority who invite themselves in the negotiations. Like Richard Ferrand, the President of the Assembly and his idea of ​​a temporary penalty for those who leave before age 64.

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The other crucial question is the timing of the funding conference requested by the CFDT. Should it be completed in July as planned by the union? Or much earlier as the government wants, in February or March when the text is examined in the Assembly?

" A compromise is at hand ", assures in the press the Minister of Public Accounts, Gérald Darmanin. The main thing for both camps, it will in any case not to lose face.

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